When Pixar Needs to Speed Up their 3D Workflow, This is What They Do (6 Tricks)

Johnson Martin writes:
Pixar has long been hailed as one of the top innovators in 3D animation since the early 90s. Given that, the studio has quite a few tricks up its sleeve to optimize their projects and animations. Today I’m going to share a couple of them with you and show how you can take advantage of some of the same technologies used by Pixar in their 3D animation pipeline.

Nice tips, but this is of course not special to Pixar. This is a proper workflow, go check other companies and I bet 99% will use these tips.